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Shares in Qinetiq began trading today as the UK tech firm kicked off its £1.3bn IPO. The shares were valued at 200p each - at the top end of 165p-205p range set for the float - but surged ahead in brisk early trading.
By mid morning shares were changing hands at 216p.
Qinetiq - the science and technology outfit formed from the British Government's defence research and development organisation - published details of its intention to float last month.
Boffins intend to use the cash raised from the IPO to help develop the business and snap up a few "appropriate acquisitions". Around £45m of the cash raised will be used to plug a hole in its pension scheme.
In the six months to September 2005 Qinetiq generated a turnover of £473m and an operating profit of £37.5m. ®


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The UK's Competition Commission has just shot its first kangaroo—Project Kangaroo, a proposed Hulu-style joint venture from the UK's three leading programmers. According to the Commission, no proposed remedies would have been good enough to create any sort of competition in the video-on-demand (VOD) market, so the service cannot go ahead.
Kangaroo was to feature both "archival" (old) and "catch-up" (recent) content from ITV, Channel 4, and the BBC. Nearly all of the material would be free to consumers thanks to the magic of advertising, and it would all be available from a single site.
The idea bounded into life in 2007, but by the middle of 2008, the Competition Committee was involved over worries that the UK VOD market would now essentially belong to a single company. According to the Committee's final report on the matter, out today, without Kangaroo the three programmers "were, or would be in the future, each other's closest competitors for the supply of UK VOD content." Any other company wanting to offer a competitive service with content produced in the UK would essentially have to pay whatever Kangaroo asked, and the joint venture would have great control over advertising rates for VOD content.
The companies affected issued a joint statement saying, "We are disappointed by the decision to prohibit this joint venture. While this is an unwelcome finding for the shareholders, the real losers from this decision are British consumers. This is a disproportionate remedy and a missed opportunity in the further development of British broadcasting."
The newspapers are already taking sides. A Telegraph columnist argues that the decision was correct. "The collaborators in project Kangaroo control the vast majority of UK-created video content," writes Ian Douglas. "Barring a few podcasters and some very minor digital channels almost no one is making television in this country without reference to these three organisations.
"Bringing them together into a single bargaining unit for video on demand is an unacceptable state of affairs, an online cabal, and the Competition Commission were in the dead centre of their remit to say that it could not go ahead."
But a Times columnist is outraged, pointing out that some third party like YouTube could apparently sign deals with all three broadcasters and launch a nearly identical service without problems. "But if the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 want to own the website, that's wrong—because they share the profits from the programmes they commission. How outrageous is that? The Commission is worried that they will not supply their programmes to YouTube, or other competitors on a fair basis.
"Well, it's not very complicated to get round that. The broadcasters should be forced to sell their content on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory basis to all comers, and they should sell it individually. A wholesale price could even be set by the regulator, like the ones set for BT when it comes to broadband, if it is that important."
But the deed is done and Kangaroo appears to have hopped its last hop. Each broadcaster will continue its own Internet delivery experiments, but a central hub for UK-produced TV remains out of reach.

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Their report is incorrect. That is a shelf at Walmart.
My guess, and this is just an assumption on my part, is it took them this long to get it to retail and it wasn't tied to them holding it back... Maybe I'm wrong, but I think if they could've had this on shelves in Jan/Feb, they would've.
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Rudi De Vos wrote:pchelpware was replaced by uvnc2me that's simpler to use.
Rudi De Vos wrote:yes, uvnc2me allow nat2nat connection using a repeater like service.
The only difference is that this service is only required to make the connection not to send the actual data.
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You can customize bmp/logo and used access server
You upload a zip and download the customized version ( like Sc)
The password change each connection, the access code is fix for a server ( it's based on the mac address when i can remember correct)
pchelpwarev2 is another product.
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The world depends on mariners. Mariners depend on SCI. And we depend on you.
Photos from Church Pension Group President Mary Kate Wold's ship visiting in Port Newark on Tuesday, July 31.
Photos by the Rev. David M. Rider, President & Executive Director.
SCI maintains a staff of professional chaplains with interfaith and cross-cultural backgrounds. Chaplains and volunteers assist thousands each year, extending a hand of friendship and hospitality.


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VIA has revised its NanoBook Small, Cheap Computer reference design to make it a little more like Asus' Eee PC. It also comes with a new name: OpenBook.
The chipmaker had to change the name, of course. Having just launched its 'Isiah' 64-bit CPU as the Nano, folk would have assumed the sub-notebook design featured the new processor had the name not been tweaked. As it stands, the OpenBook continues to use VIA's C7-M ULV (Ultra-Low Voltage) CPU.
VIA's Nanobook: out with the old...
The 1.6GHz processor sits on an 800MHz frontside bus connected to a VIA VX800 chipset - an upgrade on the Nanobook's VX700 chipset. VIA anticipates licensees throwing in up to 2GB of DDR memory and at least 80GB of hard drive storage.
...and in with the new: VIA's OpenBook
The design calls for an 8.9in, 1024 x 600 display, an improvement on the NanoBook design's 7in, 800 x 480 screen. The graphics come courtesy of the chipset's integrated VIA Chrome 9, a DirectX 9-compatible GPU that can grab up to 256MB of main memory for its video buffer.
The OpenBook spec includes Readltek HD audio codec and Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet chippery with 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth as standard. WiMax, HSDPA and EvDO mobile broadband technologies are optional internal add-ins.
Like the Eee PC, the OpenBook has three USB 2.0 ports, 3.5mm audio I/O sockets, a VGA connector and a memory card reader - a four-in-one job in this instance. There's a two-megapixel webcam on board too.
Like the Eee PC - only curvier
The whole lot weighs under a kilo, and measures 24 x 17.5 x up to 3.6cm.
VIA said the battery is a four-cell, "2600mA" job, which isn't impressive. In our tests, a NanoBook derivative with a 1.2GHz C7-M ULV proved to have rather less runtime than an Eee PC 701 with a 630MHz Celeron M processors.
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6 Rochester parents charged in connection with students' absences
Two other parents will face charges
Six parents have been charged in connection with their children's excessive amount of absences, Rochester police announced Tuesday.
Police charged 45-year-old John Moffett (one count), 42-year-old Dana Huntress (four counts), 48-year-old Carol Ludlow (one count), 41-year-old Michelle Palmquist (two counts), 44-year-old Leslie Leary (one count) and 33-year-old Christine Georgiou (one count) with compulsory attendance.
"We feel it's a serious issue. The school department feels it's a serious issue. These kids need to be in school. They need to have an education. It's the foundation of their entire future," said Capt. Paul Toussaint with the Rochester Police Department.
Two other parents will face the same charge once they are located, police said.
Police said that this round of violations included one child who had more than 250 unexcused absences.
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On Sunday, June 17, the market kicked off with a negative tone with most blue chips heading south on depressed volumes. The active PAMI index sank 1.4 percent, while the broader PIPO index gained 0.3 percent.
Suez Cement fell LE1.97 to close at LE36.92 following distribution of its cash dividend of LE2/share. Other cement stocks sank into the red with Helwan Cement losing
1.21 percent and Sinai Cement falling 1.28 percent.
Mobile operators lost ground yester-day in correlation with the inter-national tech markets. MobiNiL slipped 1.89 percent, while Orascom Telecom fell 1.77 percent.
Elsewhere, medical conglomerate Lakah Group fell limit down with more than 2.8 million asks failing to attract investors after the company defaulted on its Eurobond coupon. Gainers were found in the milling sector, as East Delta Mills, North Cairo Mills and Central Egypt Mills rose 1.37 percent, 1.03 percent and 0.98 percent, respectively.
Prime Securities S.A.E.
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The A-League's marquee man Alessandro Del Piero lived up to his superstar billing with two spectacular goals for Sydney FC against Brisbane at Suncorp Stadium last night, but it wasn't enough to stop the Roar recording a win.
Unfortunately for the Italian, the Roar found their attacking mojo, netting four times for a much-needed victory in front of 22,970 fans who got more than their money's worth from Del Piero.
Del Piero ignited the big crowd in the 42nd minute when he broke free of Brisbane's smothering defence to crack a left-foot shot past mesmerised goalkeeper Michael Theo.
It was a classy piece of work by the World Cup-winning star, who topped the effort early in the second half with a brilliant goal that cut the lead to 3-2 and again had the big crowd on their feet applauding.
See also:
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Play of the day: Goalkeeper howler
Play of the day: Gayle hits record for six
Play of the day: Taison scores incredible volley
Play of the day: Barton scores from corner
Play of the day: One-legged soccer player scores incredible goal
Play of the day: Liverpool fans soaked by faulty sprinkler
Play of the day: Goalie sees red, strikes ball boy
Play of the day: The perfect corner kick
Play of the day: When goal celebrations go wrong
Play of the day: Goalie scores long distance stunner
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Psi-k Research Conference: Computational Oxide Spintronics
Cranage Hall, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, UK
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- 06 May 2012 08:30
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- 10 May 2012 18:00
- duration
- 5 Days
The main purpose of this research conference (sponsored by the Network of the European Science Foundation "Advanced Concepts in ab-initio Simulations of Materials (Psi-k2)") is to provide an active forum for discussion on the state-of-the-art - including challenges and perspectives - of the theoretical modeling for transition metal oxides. What we propose is a "Gordon-research"-like conference lasting 3.5 days consisting only of invited/plenary speakers and of a poster session with lots of time for discussion. While the main focus will be on "ab-initio" simulations, a strong interface to many-body physics treated on the basis of realistic model Hamiltonians will be included and a few leading scientists in experiments will be invited.


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FOX RIVER GROVE – About 100 feet from Violet Road is a stake in the ground with an orange ribbon.
It denotes the general area on Norge Ski Club property a proposed 120-foot AT&T cellphone monopole would be built.
If the tower is built, the top would be about 20 feet above the top of the treeline, and well below the top of the 170-foot ski jump, Norge Ski Club President Scott Smith said. There is an adjacent service road that Norge uses for operation, and it has easy access for AT&T.
Over the past few months, village officials have been discussing the monopole plans. Last month, the Village Board signaled it would not approve AT&T's proposal.
Residents who live in the area of the ski jump club have spoken out against the cellphone tower plan, and one resident complained about the aesthetics, even saying it would ruin the village's skyline.
Smith would not disclose how much money the ski club could potentially earn from having AT&T on its property, but said it would help keep the club financially stable.
"It keeps us from having to start charging the local recreation council for using our property for soccer," Smith said. "We don't want to go down that road. We like the relationship we have with Fox River Grove. They support us; we support them."
The club's annual budget is about $50,000, with $30,000 going toward paying property taxes.
Under village ordinance, cellphone towers require a special use permit approved by the Village Board and can be no taller than 100 feet. However, the Village Board can grant a height variance for taller towers.
In March, Village Board members did not approve the proposed 120-foot cellphone monopole at Norge and directed staff members to draft a memo stating the reasons for denial.
However, AT&T is working on possible alternate proposals, such as bringing the monopole down to 100 feet or going to a "monopine" design, Village Administrator Derek Soderholm said.
A monopine design looks like an evergreen style tree, but costs more money, Soderholm said.
Branches on the monopine help conceal the antennas.
Soderholm said AT&T hopes to present a new design concept in May and is gathering information and working on photo simulations of a possible proposal.
AT&T didn't comment on the possibility of having an adjusted design.
"We continue to evaluate our options to strengthen our wireless network in Fox River Grove for our customers who rely on our wireless network to stay connected to family, friends, work, school and emergency responders," AT&T spokesman Eric Robinson said in a statement.
AT&T officials have said they want to build the monopole to help meet the data demands by cellphone users now and in the future.
The ski club leases space to two cellphone providers. The antennas are located on the 170-foot ski jump's support structure, with cables running up the beams to the antennas.
If AT&T tried to put its antennas on the ski jump it would require the jump to be redesigned, Smith said.
"I don't see that happening," Smith said. "To add another [antenna] on there, we probably have to do some redesigning on that jump, and that's a big ordeal. You would be putting up more structure on that thing. It probably wouldn't look like a ski jump anymore."
The base of the proposed tower also is on lower ground than the base of the ski jump's support beams.
While standing at the site of the proposed pole, the area is currently surrounded by trees, several of which are dead and need to be cut down anyways, Smith said.
"This is ideal," Smith said. "This is the highest point in McHenry County. Why wouldn't you want to be out here?"
Judy Mascolino, who lives across the street from the ski jump, has been a vocal opponent of the tower.
She said changes to the design of the tower would be a "last gasp" for AT&T's plan. She also contends most of the area is residential and a cellphone tower should be in an industrial site.
"They're defacing the town without the town getting any benefit," Mascolino said. "They're being like pigs and want more and more easy money."
She also questioned the notifications for the meetings regarding the tower, some of which were rescheduled. Mascolino added she doesn't trust materials provided by AT&T.
"If they make a promise, how do we know they will come through?" Mascolino said.


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Leicester Tigers and England rugby star, Louis Deacon, has taken delivery of a new Ford Ranger during his benefit year. The 6ft 6in 'lock' has teamed up with Ford dealer, Sandicliffe, and Everards Brewery, an existing operator of new Ford Transit Custom vans.
Louis Deacon, 33, has been with the Tigers – England's most successful rugby union club – since 2000, and took delivery of his four-wheel-drive Ranger Limited last month.
"When you are as tall as I am there are very few cars in which you can be really comfortable, so the Ranger is perfect for me for long journeys and for carrying all my kit around – and it's a great family vehicle too," he said.
Nick Osborne, Sandicliffe's commercial vehicles sales manager, said: "The Tigers' Welford Road ground is just across the road from our Leicester dealership, so all of the staff feel an important part of the club and its successes. Having Louis driving one of our Ford Rangers is a big boost for everyone."
"The association between family-owned local businesses, Sandicliffe and Everards Brewery, is strong. We have just delivered two Ford Transit Customs, specially equipped as service vans for engineers to visit the brewery's 175-plus public houses."
The new Ford Transit Custom vans carry all the beer pumping equipment which the Everards technicians require to help keep the ale flowing to customers.


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Police investigating second case of would-be robber shooting through front door
A man was wounded in a shooting as he slammed his front door on a would-be robber early Tuesday morning in north Harris County.
The shooting happened about 1 a.m. on Camden Parkway near Walters, officials said.
Officials said the man, whose name has not been released, was rushed to a nearby hospital. His condition was not released.
Officials said the victim may have been followed home by the suspect. When the suspect approached, the man went inside his home and slammed his door. But the suspect fired at least once through the closed door, hitting the man.
The suspect left after the gunfire. No description of the gunman was immediately available.
Officials said robbery appeared to be the motive in the case.
It was the second time in as many weeks that a victim was wounded when a suspect shot through a closed front door.
A 59-year-old woman was wounded when she thwarted two would-be robbers at her home about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 5700 block of Vendi near Abruzzo, said Victor Senties, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department.
Senties said the woman had just come home from work and was walking toward her front door when two men confronted her. One of the men brandished a pistol and the pair ordered her to go inside the home.
As she opened the door, the security alarm sounded. The men told her to shut off the system. She went inside, but before the robbers could follow her she slammed the door.
Moments later, the gunman fired more than one shot through the closed door, hitting the woman in the leg.
Senties said the woman was rushed to Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. Her condition was not released, but Senties said her gunshot wound was non life-threatening.
The would-be robbers left after the shooting. No description of them was available.


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There is no Peter Lugers in Las Vegas. I checked
I've never been known for my brevity, so here goes...
Travel - My-Sugar-Na's and my flight to Las Vegas was relatively uneventful, especially compared to (Sponsor's Name Here)'s Official Parents. Their flight from Milwaukee was delayed continuously due to weather affecting their inbound plane. When they finally got on, they sat on the tarmac for at least an hour while a fuel gage problem was checked. This caused them to miss their connection in Denver. Their new flight - which was also held up with mechanical problems - got them to Las Vegas a full five hours late. My pops was a none-to-pleasant soul at 1:00 AM Vegas time. My sister and her friends, Jendy Wo, Revvy Al and the Slot Jockey came in Monday morning... their flight was to leave Milwaukee only three hours after my parents arrived. It was kind of cool talking to my sister as she was getting ready to leave - her after waking up and me not having gone to bed yet.
I have been to Vegas now four times in four years, and I still am amazed at how L - O - N - G the stoplights are all over Vegas. I'd bet that in the six days I was there, I lost eight hours to waiting at lights. Being part of a large group, consensus was needed on what to do at what points, so there was a lot of criss-crossing town. Getting from Brown Deer to Franklin is easier at 5:00 PM than it is getting from downtown Las Vegas to the south end of the Strip.
Bowling – The reason for going out to Las Vegas in the first place. I had posted in a thread on the USBC Tournament Forum that I had so many other vacation activities going on that I'd bowl if I had time. Little did I know how true that was. In going to Las Vegas with my wife, parents, sister and her three friends, not only was there no time for bowling side events, my chauffer duties prevented me from arriving at the Cashman Center more than 45 minutes before Team event (we bowled Thursday 4-30 at 2:30PM). I don't believe that it affected my performance, but it probably didn't help.
In the Team event, I bowled 203 - 230 - 170 for a 603 series. In the third game, my line changed drastically and had a couple of opens, and by the time I found it again I couldn't put any doubles together to salvage a good game.
Later that evening in the Doubles event, the four of us on that pair were handicapped by the lower averaged players on the pair that had bowled prior to us. Instead of creating a "track" in the oil pattern to guide the ball to the pocket, the collection of ten that preceded us just splashed the oil around. The four of us managed only six strikes the first game of doubles. I didn't strike at all en route to a disappointing 153 game. I changed my angle and by bowling ball and finished doubles with 212-240 and salvaged 605 and hopes of 1800 for all nine games.
We moved to a different pair for the singles event which had a similar line, but I had no carry at all. I made little adjustments, but just couldn't double for two games and started 161-188. They finally started falling the last game for 223, but with a 572 in singles I missed my all events goal and ended with 1780. In taking my yearly crack at this, I thought that I was more prepared than past years. I bought two new bowling balls and I had a game plan based on what I read here and here. All of that for 1780... I can take some solace in the fact that I made 27 of 28 single pins, but when Ron Vokes has a 30-bagger, my 28 single pins in 9 games looks quite weak in comparison. What this does is just illustrate how good some of these other guys are. I've never doubted their ability, but it is a bogey I keep striving for, and which makes me want to come back each year. It also makes me wonder how the hell I had 2027 for nine games in Salt Lake City in 1996.
I am already gearing up for Reno next year. I had the best of intentions, but wait till next year…
Hotels – We stayed at the Excalibur for three nights (starting Sunday 4-26) and everything was fine. I had no complaints. The room was nice enough (and had two nights taken off based on our gambling); nothing fancy but nothing wrong. Until I found a side entrance with self parking (that apparently very few knew about), I wasn't crazy about walking through the casino and having to dodge not one, but two timeshare booths. But that side entrance was by the elevators and bypassed both of them. In terms of the casino itself, it was annoyingly noisy in the evening. Dick's Last Resort bar played music at ear-splitting levels, and there was a bar in front of the casino with Beer Pong that had their own music. Both bar's music was competing with the casino's piped in music and the din of the crowd… it was distracting.
On Wednesday morning 4-29, we moved across the street to the Tropicana for our last two nights. I liked the room much better; it had a cabana look, bamboo furniture, a love seat, mirrors on the ceiling and a bathtub built for two. Unfortunately, the Trop had its own problems. We had been comped in the Paradise tower (facing the strip and right off the casino). But the entire tower was shut down (the bellman said that it wasn't up to plumbing code, but I can't find any verification of it). The Island tower was way back there… right next to the Hooters Hotels and was a hella walk from the front desk, lined with the gauntlet of kiosks offering ring cleaners, computerized face analysis, purses that look like stuffed dogs, etc. I found "Entrance 4" which, similar to the side entrance at the Excalibur was right by our elevators and with self parking, but most of that area was blocked off because they were installing some air conditioners and had caution tape up. It was a pain in the arse each time we left or came back to the Tropicana, and they didn't seem too concerned about my inconvenience. Had I known about this, we would have stayed at the Excalibur for all five nights.
Restaurants – Ate Sunday dinner at Gonzalez Y Gonzalez in the New York-New York. It was decent Mexican food, but nothing to write home about. Was not happy with the Round Table Buffet or the Sherwood Café at Excalibur. Had a great dinner at South Pointe's Primarily Prime Rib – a 20 oz prime rib on the bone with salad and bread for $20. Outstanding! Had a dinner at Hash House A Go Go (about 5 miles west of the strip on Sahara). We had seen it on Rachel Ray and also had a certificate from Restaurant.com. Another outstanding call, but the meals can easily feed two. As a matter of fact, my dad, bless his little soul, tried to get in the stuffed meatloaf, but got barely a quarter of the way through. If you have a problem wasting food or don't have a monster appetite, order one meal and split it. We also had a Restaurant.com certificate for Pampas, which is a Brazilian Churrascaria in the Miracle Mile shops at the Planet Hollywood and was very good. To me, it was on par with other churrascaria I've been to in Milwaukee, Albuquerque and Las Vegas. On our final day, My-Sugar-Na and I had a great bargain that I had heard of, the steak special at Ellis Island. A 10 ounce steak with baked potato, garlic green beans and a microbrewed beer (or root beer) for $6.99. It isn't on the menu, but just ask for it. The beer alone would be almost $4, and the steak was really good.
Doin's – I highly recommend The Rat Pack is Back show at the Plaza. I ordered VIP seating on-line through the USBC Rewards Center (and I don't think you need to be a bowler to sign up) and it included a free dinner. We arrived a little early and were seated at the front table that butts the stage, right next to the stage stairs. My wife made the mistake of not laughing at one of Joey Bishop's jokes, and he harassed her mercilessly for most of the rest of his set. The steak dinner was served in the show room prior to the show, and was pretty darned good. It wasn't hard to imagine being in Vegas in 1962 while in that room.
I also recommend a tour of the Neon Graveyard. If you get weak-kneed at looking at the old Vegas signs (like the Golden Nugget, Stardust or Desert Inn) you need to go there. Baldies be warned; wear a hat or you will get sunburned. Wonder how I know?
Although a little bit hokey, my wife and I actually enjoyed the Price is Right stage show at Bally's. The show is quite like the TV show (without the cameras) and is hosted by Todd Newton (from Hollywood Showdown and the Whammy! Press Your Luck remake). Warning, though, if you are called on for the showcase, do not overbid! They offer a car as part of the showcase, but it is a Nissan Versa worth maybe – maybe – 10 grand. The total of this showcase was a little over $12K, and both bidders were almost 20.
We attended the Tournament of Kings at the Excalibur. My wife and I had seen it in 2005 and it was the same… if you like the King Arthur thing, then you'd love it (as most of our group did). Me? Meh.
I would not recommend the Vegas Mob bus tour. I trashed this on this "What NOT to do" thread, but to summarize, we sat for three hours squished into a minivan, only saw two or three sites, and only got out once so the van operator could have a cigeratte. I think the main reason that I was disappointed was that I was expecting so much more.
Gambling – The first thing that came to mind was… "What recession"? The strip casinos were all at quite reasonable levels – not so busy at 10:00 AM, but remarkably busy in the evenings. On Friday night, as we got one last gamble in prior to leaving for the airport, we tried to find a quiet casino so we went to the Gold Coast… and that was elbow to elbow people. The Plaza during the day was pretty empty, and Binions at 3:00 AM wasn't too busy. Planet Hollywood, however was really hopping on a Friday night. I was expecting dead for six days and I didn't get it.
Overall, my wife and I almost won enough to pay for our trip. I had two separate $700 wins at the crap table, and a lot of little wins on video poker and Pai Gow Poker (a big win for me was one in which I banked the hand and was dealt A-2-3-4-5 Q-Q, which is a monster hand for that game). Details of my crap-ventures are here.
I didn't feel like I gambled as much as I would have liked, and still managed to get two nights and two meals comped at the Excalibur.
Overall I had an expectedly wonderful time. I want to go back in July and bowl again under an assumed name, but I don't know if I am better than 1780 anyway. As I said above, though, wait till next year…
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But first I would like to start with my own ancestry, which is the combination of two heads of families that were very dominant, my two grandfathers, Shmuel Simha Alperovich (whom I am named for), on my father's side, and Chaim Bar Dokshitsky, my mother's father. From this renowned family tree, only two small branches remain, my brother Perez and I. Like two lonely sprouts that were uprooted, refugees from the fire and the sword, we were all that survived from our huge family .
The house of my uncle, Ozer Bar Alperovich, who was brutally murderedwas located on Borisov Street., or as it was known during the Polish years, The Bridge St. (Mostava). It was the house that my grandfather Shmuel Simha Alperovich built. I regret to say that there is not much I can tell about my grandfather, but from conversations and stories I was told, it had an revolving door policy.
I know that this house was always open to the poor and the needy, and many people came there for business and also for social and spiritual support, as well as financial help an donations. My grandfather was very involved in the public life of the town, and he didn't do it for any material rewards. He, and all his sons, Yosef Chaim his oldest, my father Avraham Moshe, Zalman Israel who perished in Lithuania, and Ozer Bar were all successful businessmen. Their specialty was meat products.
People would say that my grandfather was a public enterprise all on his own. His sons, and especially Ozer Bar who was the partner of my father, went even farther with the business, extending its reach beyond the region of our town. They also developed their cattle and livestock business, and they were the suppliers for the Polish Army until the war started in 1939. My uncle Ozer Bar was particularly enterprising and he also had another business with his partner Chaim Shreibman, selling cattle feed, which was extremely successful. He continued the philosophy of my grandfather with regards to both his entrepreneurial skills and his involvement with civic activities, as well as his donations to individuals and institutions.
Unofficially he supported many people, and all his days he was the Gabay in the Chabad synagogue. He represented the best of public institutions, doing work out of his good nature, not for any personal gain.
Even when he was very busy with his business, he never let go of his public involvement. He traveled a lot amongst the big landowners in the area, and also to the villages and neighboring towns during the large fairs, where he would buy sometimes dozens, and hundreds of heads of cattle. He would take care of their feed, and he would lease ranches from the local nobleman to house them.
From that you can get that most of his business took him outside of Dolhinov, since he had to be the in constant contact with the representatives of the Polish Army with regards to the food supply business. Since he was so busy with his business and public life, he could never sit in the slaughterhouse, and he was like the foreign minister of the business.
On the other hand, my father was the interior minister of the business. He was always sitting in the shop, and was responsible for managing the daily, routine activities, which included supplying the buyers with their orders, and also receiving the supplies from the slaughterhouse and dividing them between the different branches of the business. This did not take away from the devotion my father had for the education of his sons. He thought greatly about our education, and made sure that we would be exposed to the best teachers he could find. Not only did he care about education, but he also cared about our moral instruction and our respect, and made sure that we would be both respectful and respected.
I did study with the best melameds, and first and foremost I studied with Idel Doshitsky, the prime of all the melameds in the cheders. Originally he was very much a traditionalist, but in time he became a teacher very much in the spirit of the times, and he was a father to sons who were also renowned teachers. Amongst them was his son Yosef, ZL, who will be eternally remembered by me, and his son Zelig,ZL. Zelig originally immigrated to Eretz Israel and was a teacher in the first Hebrew town, Tel Aviv. He returned to Dolhinov in order to marry his beloved, and then return with her to Eretz Israel. But this was not to be sometime after he returned, the war started. When the Germans took over the town, he and his wife escaped and eventually arrived deep into the Soviet Union, where he traveled to the land of famine, in the Asian part of the Soviet Union. After the war, he returned but passed away in Vilna before he had a chance to return to Israel. Shalom to his dust in the cemetery, in the town that was known as the Jerusalem of Lithuania.
My dear mother was responsible for the daily care of the house, and her children, and also managed the store. She was a very hard worker, very diligent and clever. My uncle Ozer Bar and my aunt Nachamka were known all over the region as benefactors. You never saw them turn down anyone who needed help, and you would often encounter orphans, and widows and poor brides who needed a dowry, when you visited their home. Even the poor and the beggars of neighboring towns were received with an open heart and with respect. The issue of dowries with poor brides was the specialty of my aunt Nachamka. She gave all her soul to this. Her kindness and her dedication were even larger than her husband's, who had to divide his time between so many other public and personal enterprises.
My father and his oldest brother, Yosef Chaim, who had a separate slaughterhouse, also contributed a lot to the public donations, and the commandment to help your brother was the motto of the entire family.
My dear friend Herzl Bentov Gitelzon, who was taken from us too soon, to our sorrow, truly cared about memorializing the community of Dolhinov and put all the fire of his soul to publish the book for the memory of our town. He would tell me tales that touched my heart about my uncle Ozer Bar, stories that I had never heard before. For the respect to his memory, I feel an obligation to bring them exactly as he told me.
Ozer Bar was a proud Jew, but not arrogant or conceited. He always was honorable, both as a Jew and as a humanitarian. That's the way he was constantly, even when he talked to the nobleman who owned the land who sold him cattle and leased him ranches. The custom was to sign a very detailed document with regards to the leasing and the buying and the conditions of payment. I was told that during the 30s, when the anti-Semitic propaganda was flourishing, and the policy was to boycott Jewish businesses, one time he made a contract with a Polish nobleman (Paritz). The Paritz wrote in the contract the Jew Barak Alperovich instead of a more respectful and (Pan) Mr. Barak Alperovich. After he made the contract with these conditions, Ozer Bar insisted that this document should be re-written because he didn't use the word Pan. (Mr. ) Although the nobleman kept insisting that all the conditions were met, my uncle refused to sign it. The nobleman was furious, but he had no choice but to re-write the document adding the respectful title. This was Ozer Bar. He demanded that a Jew get respect.
I would like to continue with the business of the family. During the market days, which were every Thursday, it was necessary to bring the meat to the butcher shop. Earlier in the day we needed to buy the cattle for slaughtering. This was not simple, since there were times when my uncles and father didn't have enough cash to do it, so they needed to borrow money on Wednesday and return it on Friday. This was not always simple. Many times the different family members were sent to repay the funds. I was also sent many times, and in the small town of Dolhinov, with its limitations, it was hard to receive large amounts of money from Gmilut Chesed, even if it was for one or two days. I must commend Mendel Haifetz and his wife Chana, as well as Itzhak (Isaac)Grosbein and his wife Peshya, who helped us many times by loaning us the money.
As for myself, I had no desire to be involved with the cattle business and the different products, and I felt a distance between the business and me. In spite of this, when the business had difficulty, and my uncle and father encountered obstacles, I would help them as needed. There were times when I complained to my father and uncle with regards to their accounting practices. I questioned them why they didn't balance their books, but they didn't take me seriously and they dismissed my comments. My uncle Ozer Bar once said to me, This is the way we've run the business forever, and we have never had any complaints. Maybe others run the business differently and maybe my father-in-law [my grandfather on my mother's side] has entirely different practices in business and is very exact in recording every financial detail. What is the difference? Is there any disaster that is about to occur? So that is the way that they ran the business, my uncle and my father.
During the first weeks of the new rule, nothing seemed to change. This was typical behavior of the new rulers. First they wanted to do some investigations and find out who had property or businesses. Even the private enterprises seemed to run without interruption, and Polish money was at first allowed to be used. Then a day came when they started confiscating property, both land and livestock. All the livestock was sold to the authorities, and from then on they forbade any private enterprise. They ordered everyone to sell all their belongings and all their supplies to the Soviet authorities, and the compensation was in Polish money. Whoever remembers this time probably remembers that shortly before the war, the Polish ministry of finance printed a lot of new money, including the 2-zloti denomination. This was done very cheaply, and the paper that this money was printed on was so inferior, that it deteriorated quickly, looking very old after only a few uses.
Clearly, all the landowners and the entrepreneurs got big sacks filled with such bills, and then the authorities announced that all these bills were illegal, and everyone lost everything. What could be done? This was a horrible financial disaster.
My well-to-do uncle, Ozer Bar, with his open-hand policy to donations now became a pauper. This greatly hurt him, and he lost all ability to function. My father also became paralyzed by this, so now I was forced, in my 17th year, to do something to save the situation. I was young and full of energy. Despite the fact that I was totally uninterested in the business of meat, as I told you before, I kept coming to the doors of all the bureaucrats of the Soviet authorities in Vileyka,. due to of the help of Milikovski, a Jewish guy from Budslav, I succeeded in getting a contract to supply meat to the Soviet government. I was very enterprising, and in all sorts of ways I succeeded in getting livestock for these enterprises. Because of that, I helped greatly in improving the dire situation in both my house and in my uncle's house.
During daylight hours I was busy with looking for meat to sell, and in the evenings I was busy making the final meat products; salami, etc. I remember how my mother would bring me food to eat during the middle of the night. I would say that as time passed, my uncle and father regained their energy and they became more involved again.
How shall I describe the character of my grandfather? I worry I will exaggerate. I hesitate to embellish My extreme love and respect for him might give me difficulty in giving a truly accurate account of him. My soul was so connected with him. I was so filled with admiration. He was the ultimate authority in my life. He exuded love and respect to all who came into contact with him. I grew up in his house. I was the first male grandchild. He loved me so much and wanted to take care of my education. He saw it as his calling in life. Since I fear that I will exaggerate, and in my exaggeration do him injustice, I will only supply a sketch of his beloved face from my childhood.
He was of average height. He had a very welcoming face, with a high forehead. His eyes were filled with intelligence, and he would observe the world with a serious expression, but never a harshly critical one. He had Peyes (traditional side burns) that were white, and a full, short, gray beard. The sparkle in his eyes was so pronounced that you felt as if he could read your soul. He had a deep expression in his eyes that reflected on everyone he talked to, and immediately he would be recognize as a man of intelligence and a distinguished individual. When he was pleased with someone his eyes would smile and have a happy expression, but when he was suspicious, his eyes would have an expression as if the person he was talking to was trying to cheat him. When the person would only tell him a half-truth, his eyes were filled with a sense of irony, as if he was saying, I know what is deep down in your soul. With a stubborn person you will go around in circles, and with someone who hides the truth you will try to scrutinize
I couldn't say he was strict in the way he treated people. I remember him as trying to do his best to be easygoing, but still in all his communications he was very careful to be truthful and decent, without any manipulation, he would get straight to the point. He never looked to control others, but he always demanded respect in business.
In both his business practices and his public activities, he would make only verbal agreements and shake hands, never setting written contracts. His business was in textiles, and he was a partner with all his sons. They never separated. I don't remember if there were other enterprises. From what I remember, they would buy from the farmers and the owners of the ranches all the raw materials that they needed, and they would store it in the yard in a special warehouse. They processed the materials there, and then sent the products (hundreds of tons) to the merchants. Their main merchant was Serbrenik in Vilna.
What was typical for my grandfather's house and business was the fact that it was very organized and well-functioning. Everyone and everything was in its place. There was no carnival atmosphere; everything functioned like a clock. The crowd who came to the house/ business knew when it was time to leave. The accounting was diligently registered and every expense, minute as well as large, was immediately registered, and the same treatment was given to all income. Very diligent accounting, and my grandfather was the extreme authority.
This was the extreme opposite of my other grandfather's legacy in his business, and particularly the way in which my uncle Ozer Bar and my father organized their business. Theirs was like a constant carnival; the cash register was always open and no one seemed to be minding it.
Grandfather Chaim Bar Dokshitsky had five sons and two daughters. His sons Yitzhak, Shalom, Yehudah, Shmuel and Yosef. The daughters were my mother Marka and her sister;Marisha. All the sons except for Shmuel stayed in town. Shmuel crossed the border to the Soviet Union and there he married a woman. He is the only sibling who survived. Later he came to Israel and died there. Marisha, the sister of my mother, died at an early age due to tuberculosis, which at that time had no cure or effective treatment. I have no doubt that my grandfather was very respected in town and particularly in the Jewish community, and even more so among the family members, especially the many in-laws. As far as I am concerned, he treated me as it was written in the Bible, If you don't hit/discipline your son, you hate him. When I deserved punishment, he punished me with no delay. Even today I remember the sounds of the slaps that were only given to me when I was completely misbehaving. Despite that, he loved me very much and was very generous with me. He was very interested in my education and notwithstanding the fact that my father was very involved, my grandfather would still go to all my teachers on a regular basis to get a report on my academic advancement. I could never be late for prayer in the synagoguenever mind not showing up. He sat in a place where he could see everyone who was coming and going. He was interested not only in my academic career, but also in my professional training, for business.
As I wrote before, I had no interest in the other business of the family, the meat business. But on the other hand, I was very interested in the textile business. During the days when merchants would come to his house, he would let me sit in the room and tell me, Sit down and listen carefully, but don't say anything. He kept repeating this to me, and because of that, I had a great education about the way the textile business was run. My grandfather was very clear about the fact that after my bar mitzvah I would go to a yeshiva since I would be much too young to enter the business world. He was very forceful about this and my parents sent me to study in the yeshiva. They chose Yeshiva of Rabbi Myles in Vilna. I studied there about two years, and I returned to town at the end of 1937. I would feel very guilty if I did not mention the packages that were filled with many treats that my grandfather would send me regularly while I was in Vilna. Also, my mother sent me wonderful packages, and I needed nothing else, especially not in the days spent in the homes of the respectable Jews (this was the common practice, where well to do -Jews would welcome the students of the Yeshivas into their homes).
So like this the days of my youth passed, and I felt that my college education passed in the home of my grandfather. My grandfather's aim was that after I was done with my studies I would be brought into his business as his partner. As I returned I started to get involved with the business. I helped with the buying and the selling, and was responsible for loading the supplies into the freight cars.
I remember the cold winter during the last year before the war in town. There were days that the farmers couldn't bring the raw materials to us. There was only one very wealthy farmer who had a large supply of the materials who was willing to sell to us, but he wanted a huge sum of money, which caused us to pay more than we could sell it for. At that point we had a contract for a very large order, and we couldn't get all the materials that were required. One of the relatives came to me as I was weighing the materials and whispered to me, suggesting that I falsify the weight. I accepted suggestion and attempted to do it, but all of a sudden I felt a huge slap that came to me from behind. I was in shock and was afraid to look back. I imagined that it was my grandfather saw me, but all of a sudden I heard the voice of my uncle Yehudah, No one has ever done that in our family and you shouldn't do it. You must never do it again. We have many customers and the reason we have so many customers is that we are decent and honest.
But this other relative, I whispered, told me to do it.
He replied, That relative said so? He should do it and not you. It's very good that father didn't see it. You brought shame to our business.
I realized there was a big danger in what I had been attempting to do. It was very easy to detect the falsification in our records. This was a time when the Jews were already encountering much trouble from the Christians, and here if they found out, they would say, The Jews are lying and cheating.
I wrote about that to emphasize how honesty and decency in the business relations was the motto in the home of my grandfather and his sons. This was the life in the days of my grandfather until the time came for him to join the Yeshiva of Heaven, sometime near the entrance of the Soviets in 1939 maybe it was a divine intervention that he did not experience the horrors that would soon come. All his sons sat shiva (the 7 days of mourning), during which time they could not do any business., they could have used this as an excuse to not deliver their order. But this was not their habit, so they used me and sent me to do all the business. So here I was barely 17 and I had to be responsible for the business. My heart breaks and my blood rushed through my veins when I think of all my dear relatives who perished. I am a small remnant, an uprooted, lonely, crying remnant, weak and lost.
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WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Former Department of Agriculture Rural Development Director Shirley Sherrod of South West Georgia, still reeling from the blow of an assault on her job, character and civil rights record last week, told the Black Press of America that she hopes the travesty of justice that happened to her will now help America move forward with racial healing. She and her husband, the Rev. Charles Sherrod, a leading civil rights organizer, who actually marched and organized alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1961 and was arrested five times during the civil rights movement, spoke in separate phone interviews with the NNPA News Service. The Sherrods, who reside in Albany, Ga., reflected on the pains of the past as well as the meaning of the recent attack and how they have been long prepared for it. That includes Mrs. Sherrod having suffered the shooting death of her father at the hands of a Klansman more than 40 years ago. The highly respected civil rights and racial justice work of this couple underscored the irony last week as she was forced to resign by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack because of a distorted and edited videotaped version of a March 2010 speech to NAACP in which she was made to appear as if she had discriminated against a White farmer. In a nutshell, Obama appointee Secretary Vilsack fired her without first hearing the context of the remarks. The videotaped remarks out of context were also condemned by the NAACP, whose president, Ben Jealous, later said in a statement of apology that they were "snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart", the blogger who released the edited video out of context. But, as the truth was revealed by the release of the full video, Sherrod not only received public apologies from Vilsack and an offer of employment back at Agriculture – an offer that she was still considering at NNPA deadline this week – but she also received a phone call from President Obama himself who she said expressed heartfelt regrets. The heroes in the midst of the storm of criticism were the White farmer himself, 88-year-old Roger Spooner, and his wife Eloise, who appeared live on CNN. They rebuked all who had condemned Sherrod. "I couldn't believe it. She was unbelievably helpful in every way. She saved our farm," he said. "This all here is a bunch of hogwash in my opinion. She was as nice to us as anyone could have been. As far as racism and all, that's just ridiculous." In interviews, this week, both the Rev. and Mrs. Sherrod of Albany, Ga., give passionate reflections on last week's painful controversy. They discuss their deeply personal wounds and where they hope America will go from here. NNPA: How have you gotten through this? It must have been so painful knowing your family's history and background and your husband's history and background in civil rights. Shirley Sherrod: It's been the prayers of people around this country and my prayers and my family's prayers that helped me to deal with this. But, you have to know that when you're in the struggle, you deal with these bumps in the road. I've had to deal with so many difficult things through my life that it's hard to even look at this as a crisis because I've had to deal with some for years. NNPA: So, are you saying that in the context of all that you've had to deal with, that this is like a bump in the road? Shirley Sherrod: Well, it's been a big bump. But, I've had to deal with stuff for years…But, you have to do what you've got to do and don't let it get you unfocused and just continue working. NNPA: Is there anything new and different that the Obama Administration can do going forward pertaining to civil rights or Black people that you think was revealed during your situation? Shirley Sherrod: Well, I think they've got to be willing to discuss the issues. I think they shouldn't be afraid to discuss the issues because I'm a believer that if we can try to talk through things, we can probably get to a point where we can find some common ground to work from. But, if you continue to brush it under the rug and think the problem is over, it doesn't go away and we saw that [last] week. And I think that's what has happened. NNPA: Is that something that you think the White House should initiate – a discussion or forum on race? Shirley Sherrod: Well, right now I can't say that's where it needs to come from, but they certainly need to play a role. NNPA: Were you disappointed at the NAACP? Shirley Sherrod: Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. You know, yes I was. To be the brunt of their criticism – of all agencies – when you look at my work and it was the NAACP, oh my goodness. I've put in more years working, probably than, I don't know how old Ben Jealous is… NNPA: 37 Shirley Sherrod: Hey, I've worked more years than his age. I've been working 45 years. NNPA: Of course they apologized, but even with all the apologies, it's like where do we go from here as it pertains to race in America? Shirley Sherrod: We have to discuss it. We have to make some attempt to deal with it. We can't not deal with it. What are we leaving for our children who come along behind us? Are we setting up another hundred years of the same thing? NNPA: Are you hurt that Andrew Breitbart has not apologized to you? Shirley Sherrod: I probably don't need to, you know. An apology from him, what will it mean? If he said it right now, I don't think he would mean it. I think he would just be saying it because of pressure from people. NNPA: You said on CNN that you thought that he would want to see all Black people back in slavery. In other words, you implied that you felt that he was a racist. Shirley Sherrod: I know he is. It takes a racist to be able to do what he's doing. NNPA: When do you plan to decide where you go from here? Have you gotten any book offers? We saw you on The View. You are really out there. Shirley Sherrod: I was telling my sister this morning that I guess everything I've done up to now prepared me for this. But, I wasn't scared. I have four sisters. I told her it was just like sitting down talking to you all. NNPA: So, how do you see the rest of your life? How has this impacted your life? Shirley Sherrod: Well it has certainly changed because down here, people who know my work and my husband and my family, I go to the grocery store and I spend a little more time because I run into people I know and talk to. But, now that's changed to everywhere I go. (Laughter). I'm here getting my car washed and the lady here, she is White. She just said, 'I love you'. NNPA: And we saw your reunion with the Spooners and that was so touching. They seem to be such a wonderful people. Do you plan to write a book about your life? Shirley Sherrod: Yes, they are. People have been telling me, who have known me for years, you need to write a book. And my standard answer has been, I'm working so hard that I don't have the time that it takes to write a book. But, I've had text messages and I even got a FedEx yesterday from someone offering to write the book, the story. And I think I do need to do that. Yes. NNPA: Is there anything that you would want to say that I didn't ask about this moment to Black America moving forward? Shirley Sherrod: I've never wanted the limelight. That's just not me. But, if the things that have happened to me this week really help move us; those of us who live in this country to a better place where we can try to deal with the racial issues, the issues of love and togetherness; then I feel that everything that I've been through is worth it. NNPA: How have you handled what you and your wife have gone through the past week, given your history? Charles Sherrod: Well, it's not something new to have been misinterpreted or lied on by the press. We've gone through that for 50 years, so that was no surprise that a straight line truth is turned into a crooked lie. That's a part of our training in the civil rights movement. NNPA: But, did it surprise you at all in 2010? Charles Sherrod: It surprised me because the nature of the beast is still the same as it was in 1961. It is still racists who control our economy and who control much of the cultural development in our country. And we know that they are the enemy in our fight. We fight with love, but we're not a bunch of simpletons. We have been taught by this monster, whipped in place, told to stay in our place, but we've refused to do so. So, when you refuse to do so, you stand in danger of the wrath of the beast. NNPA: Why do you think they were so quick to want her to resign before they even looked into the facts? Because a race step in our society is unforgiveable. We know that people have died from it. And this administration knows that the eyes of the conservatives are glued on them and they are looking for any chance to pounce on the image of the President. And so they are being careful. He took a big risk in having the beer summit. And that evidently didn't come out as well as he would have liked it to come out, just a simple negotiating, sitting down and love, peaceful – There were no armies at war there – seemingly. But, there were. Our nation is based unfortunately on racist foundations. The people who accept the racist perspectives are not going to give up in a day; nor a week. I'm 73 years old and I've been doing this for 50 years. I started out as a child. But, this has taught me that this monster, this racist society, can change its moods, can change its forms, can maneuver, can throw a rock and hide its hand, can throw a rock and show its hand. When it has the power to do so, it does so. NNPA: What can be taken away from this? Charles Sherrod: It's a lot to take in and it's taken us years to prepare for this day. But, the good thing about all of this is that it's before the nation. Just that it's before the nation, it's where we've always wanted it to be – the question of who holds the power in our society and is that power racist power? Is that power used to put poor people in one place, colored people in another place and White people in still another place? That's a question of racism. NNPA: This has catapulted this whole question, this whole race debate before the nation, but what do we do with it, where do we go from here, what can actually move us forward on this issue of race? Charles Sherrod: We've taken a first step. The first step is to confront each other; look each other in the mirror, I as a Black person and others, whatever hues they are, whatever has made you what you are, sitting down at a table with somebody across the table on an equal basis. That's the key. Can we talk together in our society on an equal basis, accepting all the powers that you may have with all the powers that I may have, sitting down and making a conversation? That's got to occur all over the country though. And occurring all over the country means it occurs in newspapers, it occurs in magazines, it occurs in TV forums, various media groups like CNN to push it. Just about every one of their programs had it on. All of the media has got to do this. We all have got to do this. NNPA: We've got to do it, but is there something more that the President should do at this point? Charles Sherrod: Putting this weight on the President is like putting the weight of passing the health bill on the President. That particular weight was on both the President and the Congress. The President can't make two steps with legislation without the Congress approving it. And there are many other things that the president can't do without the Senate advising and consenting. So, the President has got to be open to discussions and to take the same steps as a human being that others in giant corporations need to take as well and the policies that these giant corporations with thousands of employees, open discussions in those groups as well. But, to say that the President has got to take a different step that I personally have to take is putting too much weight on the President. We've all got to take our steps. NNPA: There are some who have said that he's too timid and that was the reason that this happened to your wife in the first place was because of the timidity because of the knee-jerk reaction to anything pertaining to race instead of going deeper. Charles Sherrod: Do you think that the decision to do that was on the back of the President when the President has got thousands of issues coming before him every day? Every day he's got issues across the streams of our society that stop at his door. He doesn't have to take care of all of those issues …That's why he's got a staff of hundreds of people. NNPA: Andrew Brietbart, that blogger, still hasn't apologized. What would you say to him at this point? Charles Sherrod: I'd say to him the same thing that I would say to millions of White people across the country – that we've got to move forward together. We've got to accept that we are human beings, that we are not perfect and that we make mistakes. We have grown up and the system has taught us certain things. And at some point when we observe the things that we've grown up with, that we've been taught – and this is the point where I'm hoping that we can get to this year, this day, this week – is that there are some things that we have to accept, but there are some things that we can tell ourselves that are wrong that we have done and we know they are wrong…. I'm just saying that we are a confused bunch because of racism in our society in the way that we've been brought up. So, we are messed up. All of us, we are messed up. I can't forget all of the things that have happened to me. I forgive. I can forgive. I can say I'm not holding this in my heart against anybody. I wouldn't hurt anybody because of the wrong that they've done to me all my life. But, I've got to accept that there's something wrong inside of me that hurts; that's suffering that begs for release. But, I'm not going to have it released in front of you to hurt you. Some of those things I've got to deal with for the rest of my life. Things that White people have done to me; how they've hurt me. Things they've said to me face to face; the beatings that I've taken; the jailings that I've taken in five states. All of this is inside of me. I can't just put it aside but I can decide who I want to be. Despite all the hurt that I have, I'm not going to hurt another brother. NNPA: Has what happened last week added to that hurt? Charles Sherrod: It's added to that hurt. But, it's also taken away and soothed that hurt. There is an instance in which the truth was twisted, but the truth got out as well. And it got out with the help of a White man and a White woman. Now that's having a good week. Copyright 2010 NNPA Photo: Courtesy


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Starting Tuesday, March 8th, Kickaction.ca is inviting young women to connect, speak out and blog on issues they care about during a month-long blogging carnival!
For four weeks during the month of March, starting on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day - more than 6,000 young women share stories and opinions about weekly themes such as immigration, sexual identity, gender, art and cyberspace and much more! For its fourth edition, the Kickaction Blogging Carnival welcomes Erika Jahn from Breast Cancer Action Montreal who will blog about the practice of consumption as activism for the new generations, Meghan Murphy from the F-Word Collective will write about mainstream media and consent and young women from across Canada will share their experience as an immigrant young woman.
The Kickaction Blogging Carnival's objective is to provide an activity that is accessible to anyone with an internet connection, as well as create a space for young women to address the issues they face and to exchange comments and thoughts. Despite popular belief, young women are not victims of the media, but actively use media and the internet to their own advantage. They are organizing, mobilizing, expressing themselves, building communities, critiquing and creating something new.
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Sometimes a rare thing happens. I get up from my computer and *gasp* leave my house! Ok…that is probably a bit of an exaggeration, as, you know, I do things like go to work every day, but you get my drift! This past weekend we partook in one of my favorite activities…going to the theatre!
Now, I know that Seattle can't compare to New York's Broadway or London's West End, but it does have quite a strong, thriving arts community. This past weekend, I was somehow able to strong arm Brade into taking me to the 5th Avenue Theatre's rendition of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Let me be honest here, I am highly biased when it comes to this musical, having seen it a number of times on any number of national tours (nobody will ever touch Donny Osmond as Joseph!). Knowing that, the 5th Avenue had very big shoes to fill.
On the Cast
Their production had some guy from some season of American Idol as Joseph, who did a formidable job with the role, and had pecs and abs that must have cost him hours in the gym! However, there were some very stand out performers in this rendition that I was much more impressed with.
Jennifer Paz, as the narrator was probably one of the best performers that I have seen in this role. I believe her bio stated that she was in the first national tour of Ms. Saigon, in the lead role, so she definitely has some musical/acting chops, and that stood out here. She was just fantastic and had a gorgeous voice.
They also had some local rock musician cast in the role of Pharaoh, and he was perfectly cast. The best part was that he played some of his own music for his scenes. I was pleasantly surprised.
A much lesser role, Pontifer, was also fantastic (even though I can't recall his name >.<). Additionally, all of the brothers did fantastic jobs in their roles.
On the Show in General
Joseph is one of Andrew Llyod Weber's first musicals (years before smashes like Cats! and Phantom). He actually paired with Tim Rice (you probably know him as that Disney lyricist that worked with Alan Menkin on things like Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast). Joseph is quite literally one of my favorite musicals of all time. Not only is it a journey through a biblical parable, it's a journey through the world's music. The range of music from in the show goes from go-go, to elvis, to country, to Bernstein (if you can't catch the West Side Story reference, shame on you!). It's just all over. And it's flat out FUN. Hell, the show itself is so filled with energy, that even Brade couldn't doze off as he tends to do when I drag him to "culture".
You honestly cannot see Joseph and not tap your foot as the show goes on, and not leave humming one of the many catchy toons in the show! It is a huge ensemble production with dance numbers that you just don't see in that many shows anymore (probably largely due to the cost of having to hire all those dancers). The show is a bright, loud, colorful experience.
One of the other things that I love so much about this show is huge children's choir. I like that it introduces children to the world of the theatre and arts. Not only the children that are in the show, but their siblings and friends that come to see them perform. It opens a whole new set of doors to many youngsters who may become future performers, or patrons, of the arts. And to me this is a hugely valuable asset.
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Experts familiar with the operation and management of banks, savings and loans, savings banks, thrifts, credit unions where money is kept for saving, including investment practice, mortgages, loans, lines of credit and charge cards. Banking experts serve as expert witnesses and forensic consultants in Mississippi legal matters, and provide expert reports and testimony for judges, attorneys, lawyers, law firms, insurance companies and government agencies in Federal and state court trials and arbitrations in Mississippi.
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Danny Dukes
Canton, GA
Danny F. Dukes and Associates, LLC is a forensic accounting firm that specializes in expert witness and litigation support services. We have investigated fraud and various financial transactions. We have years of experience on staff to serve you.
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Norman Katz
Tustin, CA
Natl banking & financial services consulting/expert witness group. Expertise in: Banking operations, Checking, Trusts & Investments, Corporate/Consumer lending, Sub prime, Mortgage banking, Credit underwriting, Loan administration, Foreclosures.
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Mark Passacantando, RFC, MBA
Boston, MA
Results-centered expert who succeeds in a collaborative approach with attorneys and uses his academic background to educate judges, juries or panels. Mark has proven to be highly effective in hundreds of cases since 2001.
Michael F. Richards
Michael F. Richards
Manhattan, MT
Michael F. Richards is a banking expert with 34 years of banking experience who provides testimony and litigation support to attorneys representing financial institutions, businesses, and individuals. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants.
Valentine Law LLC
John Valentine
Groton, MA
Expert in: Custody Banking; Global and Domestic Trust and Custody Arrangements; all aspects of Trust and Custody Operations and Asset Servicing Best Practices; Risk Exposure and Risk Mitigation Best Practices; Global Custody, Valuation; ERISA Fiduciary Compliance; Foreign Exchange and other Prohibited Transactions issues.
David D. Gibbons Company
David D. Gibbons
Lake Forest, IL
Expert testimony, litigation consulting and regulatory and risk advisory services provided by an accomplished financial services executive with unique perspectives as a former senior bank regulator (both policy and supervision), Chief Risk Officer, and banking consultant (shadow regulator). Demonstrated credit and enterprise risk Identification, evaluation, and management expertise. Expert knowledge of regulatory policies and practices and industry standards including heightened risk management standards, risk assessment, examination, and enforcement. Proven regulatory issue remediation and troubled bank remediation and resolution expertise. 40 years of experience with financial services organizations ranging from community, to regional, to systemically important. Banking, Bank Supervision, Regulation and Enforcement, Troubled Institutions, Regulatory Relations Credit and Credit Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Bank Safety and Soundness and Compliance Risk Matters
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Cambria Associates
John Schnure
North Barrington, IL
40 years in banking lending commercial real estate bank management loan review due diligence. National client list - over 100 clients. Expert witness in over 14 cases in the last 3 years - all successful. Represented debtors and creditors.
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William Purcell
Basking Ridge, NJ
William H. Purcell has over 40 years of experience in every area of investment banking, including Mergers and Acquisitions (including LBOS and recapitalizations), Fairness Opinions, Adequacy Opinions, Solvency Opinions, Valuations, Damage Issues, Fiduciary Issues, Advice to Special Committees of Boards and Trustees, Due Diligence and Disclosure Issues, Financing of debt and equity both public and private, Leasing and Real Estate Financing, and many other areas.
Dr. Kent S. Belasco, CPA
Long Grove, IL
37 years commercial banking experience. Most recently was the Executive Vice President, Chief Information and Operations Officer of a major regional bank in Illinois. Areas of expertise in commercial banking include: information technology, loan and deposit operations, project management, credit, collections, branch maintenance and operations, and acquisition integration.
Greenwich Risk Management Advisory Services LLC
Robert F. Geary
Stamford, CT
Mr. Geary has been a banking, finance, investment management and risk management industry professional for 49 years with 34 years serving in a variety of senior treasury, financial markets, investment management and risk management roles at JP Morgan Chase & Co. He is well versed in matters concerning Risk Management in General, Banking in General, Treasury Management, Investment Management, Fiduciary Responsibilities, Financial Markets, Use of Derivatives and Corporate Governance.
Inglewood Associates
Nancy Terrill
Fairport Harbor, OH
Nancy Terrill has 35+ years of commercial lending and commercial loan workout. She was a bank executive who managed the commercial workout department of a large regional bank. She offers witness expertise in: Commercial Banking Lending Standards, Commercial Loan Workout, Fraud, Lender Liability, Good Faith and Fair Dealing, Regulatory Standards, Privacy, banking ethical standards, Commercial Reasonableness, Asset Based Lending, Collateral valuation and assessment and M&A Due Diligence.
Jerry G. Carlson Consulting
Jerry G. Carlson
Camarillo, CA
Banking & Mortgage expert witness & legal consultation services related to lenders liability issues, problem credit management / disposition, wrongful credit management / disposition, wrongful foreclosure / litigation / collection activities, allegations of director / officer liability & negligence, credit & lending administration best practices
Peggy A. Hansen
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Irvine, CA
Peggy Hansen has over forty years of experience in banking, with emphasis in executive level administration, operations management, fraud mitigation, BSA/AML/USAPATRIOT Acts and administration including transaction processing and risk mitigation, accounting and reporting, personnel administration, information technology,all non-lending regulatory compliance matters and regulatory liaison.
Samuel K. Freshman
Samuel K. Freshman
Los Angeles, CA
Attorney, Realtor, Developer, and Educator for: Legal Malpractice & Fiduciary matters; Lease Interpretation, Syndication, Construction, Property Management, Finance, & Due Diligence. Arbitrator, Finance & Banking Officer, & Title Company President.
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Douglas E. Johnston, Jr.
Santa Monica, CA
Doug Johnston is an expert witness in banking & finance, and an investigative business consultant. His experience includes having served as a CEO, President and/or EVP in leading Commercial Banking, Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Real Estate companies. Trained at an AAA-rated major East Coast bank, he was honored early in his career as a bank President before establishing and managing five full-service bank offices in Texas and California. His service includes 19 years in commercial banking plus 7 years as EVP-Finance and Administration of the largest private company in Los Angeles where he arranged financing for over 40 acquisitions and managed over 100 banking relationships.